{"id":1246092,"type":0,"block_id":"shannonf_1370907747","theme_id":20,"user_id":436038,"path":"The-rich-and-the-poor","title":"The rich and the poor","pubtitle":"The rich and the poor","tags":"","public":true,"publicAccess":true,"private_link_enabled":0,"thumb":"https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/infogram-thumbs-200/shannonf_1370907747.jpg","width":494,"copyright":"By Shannon Fortune and Caitlyn Woolman-Smith 9RKO","properties":{"publishType":0,"transparent":false,"rtl":false,"export_settings":{"showGrid":true,"showValues":true},"whitelabel":false,"embed_button":"enabled","title_link":"infogram","custom_logo":"infogram","custom_link_status":"infogram","custom_link_url":"","user_embed_button_text":"Share","decimal_separator":".,"},"elements":[{"type":"particle","particle_id":16850311,"object_id":"fa7b903c-eacd-11e4-a037-7b5f270fdca9","particle_type":"maintitle","picture":null,"text":"The rich and the poor","content_type":"","title":null,"shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1556129,"object_id":"shannonf_1370909250","particle_type":"image","picture":"https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/infogram-particles-700/shannonf_1370909250.jpg"},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1556232,"object_id":"shannonf1370910125","particle_type":"bodytitle","picture":null,"text":"What are the categories and scale of inequalities in the world?","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1567662,"object_id":"shannonf1370998855","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"There are plenty of categories, like lack of resources, wealth (or lack of it), over-population, natural disasters, and access to food and water. All these contribute to defining the rich and the poor. The poor people of the world don't really have ANY access to clean water or nutritious food, whereas rich/average people have easy access to clean water; hello, it's called a tap!","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"chart","chart_id":2075151,"object_id":"shannonf_1370999759","chart_type_nr":3,"data":[[[],["Richest 10%","85%"],["Poorest half of the world","1%"],["Everyone else","14%"]]],"custom":{},"colors":[],"dimensions":[],"modifier":0,"sheetnames":null,"sheets_settings":[]},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1567795,"object_id":"shannonf1370999917","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"This chart shows how many global assets wealthy people own compared with the poor. This study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research at United Nations University reports in the year 2000 that the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global assets. ","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1588866,"object_id":"shannonf1371162388","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"Current research shows that global income and inquality was at its highest in the 1970s. This was also when countries where distributed into \"rich\" and \"poor\" countries. Since then inequality has been rapidly decreasing and most people are living in middle-income countries. ","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1588922,"object_id":"shannonf1371162881","particle_type":"quote","picture":null,"text":"\"Inequality is not just bad for social justice, it is also bad for economic efficiency.\"","content_type":"","title":"globalissues.org","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1588941,"object_id":"shannonf1371163109","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"25,000 people die each day die from hunger in a world with plenty food to go around. Alomst half of the world lives on less than $2 a day, for every 6 people that have enough to eat, about one man, woman or child is starved with not enough nutrition. 18 million people each year die of poverty.","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1616076,"object_id":"shannonf_1371513827","particle_type":"image","picture":"https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/infogram-particles-700/shannonf_1371513827.jpg"},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1615907,"object_id":"shannonf1371512460","particle_type":"bodytitle","picture":null,"text":"Why do rich countries keep getting richer and poor countries keep getting poorer?","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1616121,"object_id":"shannonf_1371514277","particle_type":"image","picture":"https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/infogram-particles-700/shannonf_1371514277.jpg"},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1616140,"object_id":"shannonf1371514581","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"People who are born rich are positioned to have more educational, social, and economic opportunities which gives them advantages over the poor. \n","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1668097,"object_id":"shannonf1372126780","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"According to current research, global income inequality was at it's highest approximately in 1970s when world income was devided into \"rich\" and \"poor\" countries with little overlap. Since then inequality have been decreasing fast, and this trend is accelerating. Income distribution is now 'unimodal', with most people living in middle-income countries.","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1616148,"object_id":"shannonf1371514638","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1668034,"object_id":"shannonf1372125350","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"\"A cycle linking wealth, education, the labour market and globalisation has created the conditions for inequality to flourish and feed on itself.\"","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1626262,"object_id":"shannonf1371602387","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"1. Initial Conditions- the economic condition that people are born into, including wealth and asset ownership.\n\n2. Channels of influence in early life- the routes that could potentially inflate unequal starting points, most notably early childhood education and care, primary and secondary education.\n\n3.External influences- globalization and liberalization are two major external forces that have both directly fueled inequality.\n\n4. The national economic system- including the make-up of sectors and profile labour.\n\n5.The political system and tax- the type of political system, namely if it is proportionally representative or not,dictates the likelihood of governments tackling inequality . This in turn influences the progressive or regressive tilt of tax policy.\n","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1695368,"object_id":"shannonf1372372157","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"6: Chronic Poverty is a big reason. Chronic poverty is defined as when adults remain in extreme destitution for basically all of their lives, and normally pass it on to their children.","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1626348,"object_id":"shannonf_1371603441","particle_type":"image","picture":"https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/infogram-particles-700/shannonf_1371603441.jpg"},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1626330,"object_id":"shannonf1371603249","particle_type":"maintitle","picture":null,"text":"How can we reduce the inequalities that exist in the world?","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1626387,"object_id":"shannonf1371604000","particle_type":"quote","picture":null,"text":"\"A region with great natural wealth, riven by war, racked with hunger and traumatized by a long history of colonial abuse, postcolonial kleptocracy and plunder. In the past 10 years alone, millions have died here, and more die each day as a result of the conflict. Most die not from war wounds but from starvation or disease. A lack of infrastructure means there is little medical care in the cities and none in rural communities, so any infection can be a death sentence. The most vulnerable suffer the worst. One in five children in Congo will die before reaching the age of 5.\"","content_type":"","title":"-Paragraph from A Glimmer of Hope in Africa (TIME magazine)","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1656628,"object_id":"shannonf1371971687","particle_type":"bodytitle","picture":null,"text":"What do they need?","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1656635,"object_id":"shannonf1371971778","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"FREE EDUCATION: Many people in poorer countries all over the globe canot afford schooling. This means that all the people who didn't go to school when they were children don't get the chance to go to universities, which means they will never be able to get good jobs to earn money to pay for their children's school fees. The lack of good education will also cause a lack of doctors, teaters and all the other important people needed in a healthy comunity. \"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teatch a man to fish, feed him for his life.\" In other words, we need to start them off and they can take it from there.","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1656702,"object_id":"shannonf1371975146","particle_type":"bodytitle","picture":null,"text":"How can you help?","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1656684,"object_id":"shannonf1371973813","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"FINANCIAL AID: This is a big part that rich countries often forget and poor countries emphasise. They need to be able to borrow money from other countries to help support the country and help it get through particually tough times.","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1656651,"object_id":"shannonf1371972306","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"EMPLOY BUILDERS: There will always be a need for new buildings, but they ned it most in the poorer areas of the globe. Many people don't have a roof to sleep under at night, clean public toilets, wells and clean water supplys, medical facilities, classrooms or schools and shelters. If the goverment were to employ builders all over their country it would benifit everyone, as well as making hundreds of jobs for the unimployed.","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1656692,"object_id":"shannonf1371974289","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"Basically it's all the small things that matter, like making sure that families have enough food to last them a week and working on all the smaller things. \"In 10 countries more than 50% of all children have the oppotunity to attend a pre-primary program. 10 countries is good, and over 50% is great, but we need it to be ALL countries, and 100% of children.\"","content_type":"","title":"","shrink":null},{"type":"particle","particle_id":1656706,"object_id":"shannonf1371975242","particle_type":"bodytext","picture":null,"text":"There are many programs and charaties you at home can sign up to to help the poor and needy overseas like World Vision, the 40-hour fammine, sponsoring a 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